“Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because wickednessIs multiplied, men’s love will grow cold.”Matthew 24 There is reputed to be an ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” “interesting” synonymous with troubling. The times we live in are indeed troubling, and while there are many solutions offered to our […]
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“Get ready! Get Ready! The end of the world is coming!” James Thurber “The Get Ready Man” When I was very young, my grandmother assured me that God would not end the world by means of flood waters again but by fire and brimstone. Grandma was a farmer’s wife and the gentlest of souls. Her
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A Riddle Tragically Solved “There is a tenaciousness in life, and in that as much as anything must lie the hope of this world. “ Ranger Randy Morgenson More than one infamous disappearance has taken place to vex us over the years. The famous Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in the 1500’s continues to absorb
On July 23, 1928, the US Coast Guard cutter C-209, while cruising the waters of Lake Erie, opened fire with a one-pounder cannon, hurling five rounds in the direction of a “suspicious vessel,” a vessel that turned out to be carrying the ladies of the Buffalo, New York Yacht Club. This incident was but a
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The Story Of The CSS Hunley In the dark of night on February 17, 1864, a muffled explosion echoed across the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The newly constructed USS Housatonic, a 1200-ton sloop, armed with 12 cannons, under the command of Captain Charles Pickering, began to list and sink into the murky depths. Within
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“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.” Mark Twain “The Lowest Animal” The event had been hyped up for weeks by local hotel owners, carnival operators, beer distributors and other hucksters. As intended, the profit margin
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The Quest for the Fabled Lost Locomotive There were the three of us on that steamy summer evening, bug bitten, sweat soaked, caked in mud, seemingly defeated in our quest and yet determined to continue. There was my dad, then in his 80’s, who thought he knew the location of the site deep in the
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The great cat sat across from me on the concrete floor of her spacious run, nonchalantly licking her paws and giving every appearance of paying me no mind at all Tracker, a 150-pound Florida panther, was behaving as finicky as Morris, the tomcat who advertised a brand of cat food on TV years ago. “She’s
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” William Shakespeare “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” I once had a best friend named Lexi. Lexi’s father was a German shepherd, and her mother was a Siberian husky. Lexi was intelligent, precocious, independent, stubbornly focused upon her own private agenda.
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A Roving Correspondent Roves In recent times, whenever I have crossed the border to visit our friendly neighbor to the north, I have found myself doing so with a sense of relief, as though I have been carrying around a backpack filled with bricks and can finally put it down. All too often of late,
